Existence and Imagination: Philosophical Aspects of Tove Jansson�s Fiction 

Symposium with professors Hans Ruin, Dan Zahavi and Sara Hein�maa 

Time: February 8, 2017 

Venue: House of Sciences and Letters, Room 505, 5th floor, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki 

PROGRAM 
12:15�12:30 Welcome and Opening 
12:30�13:30 Hans Ruin (S�dert�rn, Stockholm): Dancing with Zarathustra: Tove Jansson, Nietzsche, and the Poetics of Overcoming 
13:30�14:30 Dan Zahavi (Copenhagen): Manhattan Dynamite and no Pancakes
14.30�14:45 Coffee 
14:45�15:45 Joona Taipale (Jyv�skyl�): �Perhaps a Mirror Might Help?� � Recognition and Intersubjectivity in the Moominvalley 
15:45�16:45 Sanna Tirkkonen (Helsinki): Love Triangle on the Anxious Island: Coping with Fear, Depression and Anger 
16:45�17:00 Coffee 
17:00�18:00 Sara Hein�maa (Jyv�skyl�): Imagination and Ending: The Hysteric, the Neurotic and the Demented

Organized by the research community Subjectivity, Historicity, Communality (SHC), sponsored by the Academy project Marginalization and Experience: Phenomenological Analyses of Normality and Abnormality (MEPA)